So I discovered arduino about 4 hours ago while researching a project I am working on. (<-you've been warned... let me know if I'm being unreasonable with what I'm trying to do here)
I'm an "amateur-plus" photographer/videographer that has acquired a motorized bushnell telescope mount that I want to modify to support my DSLR camera. The controller that accompanies this mount isn't really useful for my timelapse endeavors.
So (in a nutshell) I want to create a new controller that works via bluetooth (also, I have an iphone, not android) that would use the existing 9v elevation and azimuth motors but give me more "fine tuning" control over them in terms of speed.
I initially just wanted two knobs attached to a PWM circuit that would control these, but I think bluetooth could be cool and cleaner on my end... particularly if it allowed me to really fine-tune the motor speed with some real world values (rpm? voltage?) shown in the app for record keeping and calculating degrees of motion for my camera over time. Basically I want to be able to have them go really slowly.
So... my question is... is this something that can be done relatively easily (I'm not a complete rube, but I don't deal with this arena every day) if I buy the appropriate components? And... is there a similar project already out there in tutorial land? I feel like the hard part for me will be the script writing part more than the assembly part.
Followup... what might it cost to have someone do this up for me?
Any and all advice is welcome; thanks!
EDIT: Would this kit give me the tools to get the job done?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/W5100-Ethernet-Shield-RFID-MF-Attiny85-RS232-Bluetooth-Keypad-Switch-for-Arduino-/151231536066?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item23361a1bc2